OBITUARY: William J. Claxton, 80; Made 'Jazz for the Eyes'

As the premier chronicler of West Coast jazz, photographer William Claxton took his subjects out of the shadows and into the light. Instead of posing musicians such as Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins in dark, seedy-looking clubs, wreathed in cigarette smoke, he photographed them on golden beaches, riding on carousels, strolling in the Mojave Desert, emerging from the ocean cradling a trumpet...

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